Detail of 16thC Lincolnshire, Ortelius's 1579 map--interesting which places he chose to mark! http://sites.oxy.edu/horowitz/Ortelius/ortelius7/scebo-0007c.html …pic.twitter.com/f7UGlyT4OY
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(On the first map, I should have said, not so much this one---on 1st map, lots on coast, not so many inland+mistakes)
Detailed ver of Speed, 1611, some v diff rivers courses, important for pre-Modern landscape eg http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/11/stain-hill-anglo-saxon-marsh.html …pic.twitter.com/BmK8QXVJs6
Full ver of 1611 Speed map of Lincs, zoomable here http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/speed.html … Watch out for whale-monsters in the Humber!pic.twitter.com/WN2xBhSKsb
@caitlinrgreen Do I see a place called "Thong" on there? :-D
@peterc Lol! You do, and that's a whole blogpost in itself ;) Suffice to say, early name for Caistor wrongly plotted where Horncastle is :)
@caitlinrgreen Ha! I'd love to see that one day :) Also surprised how Lincoln was a border town. Can't think of another county like that.
@peterc Indeed! Very odd, reflects changes over times as in 7thC Lincoln's territory prob included much of Nottinghamshire :)
@caitlinrgreen Surely this is Pieter van den Keere's 'mini-Speed', so a bit of editing's take place on the detail front from the 1611 sheets
@caitlinrgreen What may be of more interest is Morden's 1695 depiction of the sandbanks off Lincs - see http://bit.ly/1I0eCEb for a copy
@GrayGray83 thanks! And yes, v nice!
@caitlinrgreen You can trace other small scale maps of the county in what's still (for me) the bible of the subject http://bit.ly/1BzhtOF
@GrayGray83 Ah, of course :)
@caitlinrgreen sea provides more space to write the coastal names too! :) aside from words, only stylised church icons drawn - that normal?
@CatherineEsse At this stage, yes :) But makes sense if think about travelling then--what would one see first as one approached town/vill?!
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